Sentence examples for obtaining enlightenment from inspiring English sources

It follows the method of quiet sitting and meditation (zazen) as a means of obtaining enlightenment.

He was raised in the Shakya capital of Kapilvastu and obtained his enlightenment in Bodh Gaya, India.

She was glad to obtain such enlightenment.

Romantic science maintained the prominence and reputation that Scotland had begun to obtain in the Enlightenment and helped in the development of many emerging fields of investigation, including geology and biology.

The song was originally intended for a rock opera Townshend had been working on, Lifehouse, which was a multi-media exercise based on his followings of the Indian religious avatar Meher Baba, showing how spiritual enlightenment could be obtained via a combination of band and audience.

Spiritual enlightenment means to obtain a spiritual revelation or deep insight into the meaning and purpose of all things, to communicate with or understand the mind of God, or to achieve a fundamentally changed level of existence whereby one's self is experienced as a non-changing field of pure consciousness.

"Conventional Truth" in Tiantai is not something to be left behind when we reach enlightenment, but rather what is obtained and mastered and intensified there.

Thus, the Buddha, in achieving enlightenment (bodhi), was described as having "obtained the Dao"; the Buddhist saints (arhat) become perfected Immortals (zhenren); and "non-action" (wuwei) was used to render nirvana (the Buddhist state of bliss).

He called on 90 heads of state, but could not, he says, obtain an audience with Robert Moses, from whose experiences in N.Y. he had hoped to derive enlightenment.

Find out about the enlightenment.

Any enlightenment appreciated".